Christopher Kennedy

Christopher Kennedy is the author of five collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: Clues From the Animal Kingdom (2018), Ennui Prophet (2011), and Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (2007), which won the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA. He is also co-translator of Light & Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil (2013), published by BOA as part of the Lannan Translation Selections Series. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Kennedy is associate professor of English at Syracuse University, where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.


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